I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefu...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know th...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the coura...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that i...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must partici...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day,...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized med...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French l...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN ردّد في سرِّك إن الصمت مريحٌ لك وللآخرين ، وبخاصةً الآخ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN إن أكثر الأمور الاعتيادية تفاهةً، تصبح في المحن العصيب...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN في تلك اللحظة عشت هنيهات من الطمأنينة الغامرة. فما عاد �...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No n...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express th...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN كم يسعدني فكرة أن تناجيني على رغم أنني لن أستطيع سماعك �...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mot...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing i...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to m...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN الضوء يفتح القلوب ويشرح الصدور . أنه علامة بهجة . أنه عل�...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Wir hatten keine Namen mehr, weder Vergangenheit noch Zukunft.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Une femme qui pleure et te demande de la protéger c’est Grandiose
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an...
TAHAR RAHIM Movies don't have borders.
TAHAR RAHIM Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
TAHAR RAHIM Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wa...
TAHAR RAHIM We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like...
TAHAR RAHIM I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the dir...
TAHAR RAHIM I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre mo...
TAHAR RAHIM The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
TAHAR RAHIM I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
TAHAR RAHIM Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.
TAHAR RAHIM I've always refused to play terrorists.
TAHAR RAHIM I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who ju...
TAHAR RAHIM I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or...
TAHAR RAHIM If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
TAHAR RAHIM I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
TAHAR RAHIM I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and t...
TAHAR RAHIM I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and...
TAHAR RAHIM In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, Fre...
TAHAR RAHIM We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jai...
TAHAR RAHIM I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
TAHAR RAHIM I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
TAHAR RAHIM What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
TAHAR RAHIM With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was ...
TAHAR RAHIM At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
TAHAR RAHIM I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
TAHAR RAHIM I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
TAHAR RAHIM Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO